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On January 13, Taylor approached his ex and her new boyfriend in Biddulph town centre.

Miss Hayers said: “Taylor said, ‘You should not have called the police on me’. He went in a shop. The police were contacted.

“The defendant approached them again. They believed he was goading them for a fight. He said, ‘Come on, you and me in this alley, come on, come on’. They continued to walk up Tunstall Road with the defendant shouting abuse.”

Taylor, of St John’s Road, Biddulph, pleaded guilty to harassment and two offences of breaching a restraining order.

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Scott Ashdown, mitigating, said the defendant accepts he has made some poor decisions. He said: “Drink had a part to play in that.”

Mr Ashdown added that the defendant wants to move out of Biddulph.

As part of the suspended sentence Taylor must complete a six-month alcohol treatment requirement, a rehabilitation activity requirement for 25 days, and a four month electronically-monitored curfew from 7pm to 6am.

And he was made the subject of two 12-month restraining orders, which prevent him having any contact with his ex or her new partner.